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Friday 2nd February
Posted: Feb 2, 2024 by: Elaine Matthews (EMatthews) on: Class 4
Good afternoon everyone!
We have had another very busy week here in class 4! We began with some wonderful xylophone playing at the beginning of the week; the children are so great at playing in time with each other now, even when playing tricky chords too. They're very impressive indeed!
On Monday, the children were delighted to discover they would be making vegetable soup in small groups next week and so spent a little time designing their recipes ready for cooking, tasting and evaluating early next week! Should be very exciting! Thank heavens Miss Nipe (our student teacher) will be back with us on Monday to help!!
The children are continuing to enjoy working on 'The Secret Garden' in English; they have written wonderful diary entries in the role of Mary this week and have created the most impressive pastel drawings of the garden. Next week, they will be describing in detail how the garden looked, sounded and felt next week.
The Industrial Revolution continues to interest the children in history; they are so enthusiastic and very keen to both ask and answer questions. We've been focusing on the enormous benefits the development of the railways must have had on families, factory workers and shop owners in the 1800s. We will be looking at the development of the London Underground next week.
The children worked really well in RSE this week; we have been focusing on how emotions and feelings can change during puberty. The children were fabulous; I gave them all a different 'letter' to discuss together and asked them what advice they would give the writer of the letter who was struggling with their emotions. The responses the children gave were so thoughtful and empathetic. What a wonderful group of mature children I teach!
Finally, we have had an interesting science lesson this afternoon. We are investigating 'sound' at the moment. The children have carried out 3 small investigations to find out how sounds can be altered. They have discovered how volume and pitch can vary. The children blew across 3 bottles with differing amounts of water in (it's trickier than it looks too!!). They created sounds using the rulers; vibrating them at different lengths on the desks and finally bounced marbles on the lids of different containers. In a noisy classroom, it wasn't as easy as we'd have hoped, but we did finally master each of the investigations and learnt a great deal! Below are just a couple of photos.
Have a wonderful weekend together!
See you Monday,
Mrs Matthews x
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